IMPORTANT NEWS about Beta Links (Patreon)
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Today I was planning to post a warning post, but before I was able to, I was robbed again.
After months and months complaining about this to my best friend, she has been thinking of a solution for it. And today, she finally suggested me that I could protect my works from frauds and declineds from now on. She thought about an interesting way of protecting my works from now on and I liked it.
While I know it's not one of the fairest way for the legit new patrons, it's the fairest way for all of you who pledged already and fulfilled at least one payment to me. You genuinely pay while others get access to my page by pledging, download all the stuff and leave and then cancelling pledge or just using a wrong card/paypal to force it to be a Declined or Fraud payment. Those don't have access to my page anymore because of Patreon's system, but before that comes they have all the world time to steal all they can... This isn't fair for both you and me. Of course what I mean here are the Beta Links of my in progress Shimeji...
This wouldn't be necessary if Patreon system would obligate pledgers to pay the very first time they pledge, instead of "at the end of the month". Another solution they can implement (I've already suggested it to them) an option called "visible to processed patrons only", this would easily fix this issue. So, until this will be for everybody (it exists, but it's a beta system and for few people only, so this measure should be just temporal anyway until it's for everybody), I feel obligated to protect my works with a Monthly Password. With that said, let me quickly explain how will it work:
From now on (until Patreon will fix it) all the Beta Links will be posted in an external site from Patreon, and that website will be Password Protected. The password will be provided via e-mail (I will use the one you have attached to your account) and I will trust you about the pass confidentiality, I need your help with this.
My friend is still helping me to perfect the password-protected page and discovering pros and cons, so I hope you can bear with me while I work on this instead of shimejis... Thank you for your understanding.
IMPORTANT: This will affect BOTH of my Patreon accounts: Cachomon and BlackCachomon!!!